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We are extremely pleased to announce that the Human Rights Campaign has started up an online campaign to "tell Sally Kern her bigotry is unacceptable." They're seeking to send out 145,000 e-mails to Oklahoma Leaders condemning the homophobic Oklahoma State rep!

Last week, Oklahoma City Rep Sally Kern was living up to her reputation by supporting approval on a proposed constitutional amendment to eliminate Affirmative Action in state government.

Sally made horrendous comments to the press about the amendment passing. She expressed her warped belief that minorities earn less than white people because they don’t work as hard and have less initiative. She felt that stripping them of the ease of Affirmative Action will make them proactive.

She said even worse things about both African Americans AND women, and now we're VERY happy to learn that the Oklahoma House has voted to reprimand Kern for her horrendous comments.

Here's what Kern had to say about it:

"Last Wednesday night while debating a bill, I said some words that were not well thought out and that offended many African Americans and many women. That was not my intent, but sadly it happened, and I take full responsibility for it and I'm truly sorry."

"While my words were not expressed well and implied things I did not mean, they were not spoken with any contempt or malice."

Despite Sally's apology, the president of the Oklahoma chapter for the NAACP and the chairman of the Oklahoma Democratic party both are calling for her resignation.

YES! We think she should absolutely resign. As we said before, she's a narrow-minded, homophobic, sexist bigot, and we feel sorry that the people of Oklahoma have her as a representative.

We're shocked someone could even have these thoughts, much less express them in a public forum.

Today, the Oklahoma House of Representatives approved a proposed constitutional amendment that would eliminate Affirmative Action in state government. Several state legislators were on hand to support the amendment, including Rep. Sally Kern of Oklahoma City.

You remember Sally, don't you? No? Do the phrases "gay basher" and "hate monger" ring any bells? Well, she's living up to her long-standing reputation as the latter today as she made some horrendous comments to the press about the amendment passing.

In her warped world view, Rep. Kern believes minorities earn less than white people because they don’t work as hard and have less initiative, thus stripping them of the ease of Affirmative Action will make them proactive.

“We have a high percentage of blacks in prison, and that’s tragic, but are they in prison just because they are black or because they don’t want to study as hard in school? I’ve taught school, and I saw a lot of people of color who didn’t study hard because they said the government would take care of them.”

Or maybe they just didn't have a teacher who looked beyond the stereotypes and offered them real opportunities to excel and learn. Ever think about that, Sally? When one of those kids said that to you, did you turn around and offer them some guidance or did you just write them off??? We can only imagine!

Oh, and ladies, don't think she has forgotten about you! She further added that women earn less than men because “they tend to spend more time at home with their families.”

How does their role as a mother and wife even remotely affect their role at their job? How is it any different than being a father and husband? And what about the single mothers out there? Do they work any less diligently because they have a family to feed? This is 2011, lady! There are more women than EVER who are the breadwinners in their households. Did you take that into account at all?!

You disgust us. You're a narrow-minded, homophobic, sexist bigot and we feel sorry that the people of Oklahoma have you as a representative.

A new Bill Cosby accuser's story of how he allegedly sexually assaulted her after drugging her drink is horrifying.

According to Patricia, -- who decided to keep her last name anonymous -- Bill invited her to a dinner party in 1978 after they met at a conference... a dinner party that ended up just being the two of them: